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Jean Kerr Quotes

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: June 10, 1922 - January 5, 2003

Topics

Women Man Speak Wish Find Socks

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

Sloane Crosley

Birthday Good Memory Baby Summer

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

Ronald Frame

Good Imagination Gift Go Way Writer

I don't come from a Hollywood family. I don't have Hollywood friends. I didn't have any connections.

Michaela Watkins

Family Connections Friends Hollywood

My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.

Juan Diego Florez

Money Parents Me You Way Never

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

Joseph Wambaugh

River People Stand Back Down Wall

I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.

Colm Toibin

Funny Fun People Interesting Someone

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

Allen West

Sleep Night Never Forget Forget Why

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

Pierre Dukan

Life Food Fat Trying You First

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Polly Toynbee

Why More Reason Single Overwhelming

When I was a child, sitting in front of the campfire, I wished that I could win the Ballon d'Or.

Paulo Dybala

Child Win Sitting Campfire Front

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

Thomas J. Watson

Best Men Way Out Reports Your

Going through college a Red Sox fan and knowing the history behind everything that was going on back in the '80s and finally getting a chance to win a World Series for this great city and bringing it back after 86 years, it was truly special, and it's one of the highlights that I'll remember for a long time.

Tim Wakefield

History Great Time Red City College